Monica’s Haberdashery has closed permanently in the San Juan neighborhood In Pamplona. This is the sad story of a store that has been in existence for over 40 years, without a change of generation, and whose subsequent transfer lasted only a few months.
Monica’s haberdashery is located in the Irache Monastery Street 35 of the Navarrese capital. very close to other establishments that we have known in this section of local trade in the Navarrese capital.
As is the case, for example, of the store the student platform for buying and selling bookseither Farewell to hairdresser Manolo Jaka after 17 years in the San Juan neighborhood.
The case of the haberdashery Mónica has been coming since the retirement of its first owner, the Portuguese Ana Ventura Fernández: ““I got married and was 25 when I opened the store.”
“I will work for forty years. I’m retiring and going home. I’ve already earned it. I’m sorry, but what do you want me to do? I have a disabled husband and he needs me. I have to be home,” Ana Ventura said in an interview with this media in April 2023.
“It is both a shame and a joy. I am very comfortable working. I never thought about leaving the store. I have a very nice job with all these women here. There are people who want to take it but the banks don’t help them“There is no family respite. I have my daughters who have their jobs and they have another life,” Ana Ventura told Navarra.com.
“I’m sorry, but what do you want me to do? I have a disabled husband and he needs me. “I have to be at home. I’m retiring in a year and a half before I get paid 100%. This doesn’t compensate me because my husband is sick and I have to stay at home,” Ana Ventura commented sadly.
When everything was going very badly, the desired transfer appeared at the haberdashery. At the last minute, the commercial “miracle” happened. Peruvian Ester Guarniz Vasquez, 58 years old He was interested in the store and they came to an agreement to move forward.
“I’ve been living in Pamplona for a long time, 19 years. I have dual nationality and everything. I used to come here every now and then to buy an item and noticed it was for sale.. I hadn’t thought about it, but I saw that there were a lot of people in the store and I said I was going to try it,” he told Navarra.com.
Ester started talking to Ana Ventura “end of May and I told him I was going to continue the store. I already had some knowledge in alterations and haberdashery. The store never closed at any time. I started working from June 2, 2023.”
Despite the efforts made, The replacement of the Mónica haberdashery only lasted one year. Ester’s expectations were not met and the store closed at the end of June of this year 2024.
